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Hayley Scamurra and Lina Ljungblom each scored their third goal of the season, Ann-Renee Desbiens earned her fifth shutout, and the Montreal Victoire beat the Minnesota Frost 3-0 on Wednesday night in St. Paul, Minn., to sweep the season series.
Montreal (11-4-2-5) has earned points in 10 straight games (6-2-2-0), a streak that began with an overtime win at Minnesota on Jan. 21. It’s the longest such streak in PWHL history since Toronto’s 11 in 2024.
Catherine Dubois scored her second goal of the season to open the scoring with 40.7 seconds left in the second period. Dubois took advantage of a Minnesota turnover with a quick one-timer.
Scamurra made it 2-0 early in the third when she controlled a loose puck in front of the net and tucked it around goaltender Maddie Rooney.
Ljungblom matched her goal total from a year ago to help Montreal improve to 9-2-1-1 when scoring at least three goals this season.
Minnesota (11-3-3-5) is 7-2-0-0 since Jan. 4 when facing any team other than Montreal. The Frost are 0-0-2-2 against Montreal in that span, scoring two or fewer goals in each game.
Rooney had won her previous seven straight for the Frost.
Montreal travels to Detroit to play the New York Sirens on Saturday as part of the Takeover Tour.
Minnesota remains home to play the Boston Fleet on Sunday.
Torrent 4, Sirens 1
Theresa Schafzahl, Danielle Serdachny and Cayla Barnes each scored in the first period and the Seattle Torrent beat the New York Sirens 4-1 on Wednesday night in a Takeover Tour game in Chicago for their second win away from home this season.
Seattle (6-1-2-13) scored the game’s first goal for just the sixth time this season — after entering tied with Vancouver for fewest in the PHWL.
Schafzahl scored her first goal since being traded to Seattle on a nice wraparound for a 1-0 lead and she assisted on two other goals. Serdachny made it 2-0 to reach four points (two goals, two assists) in her last six games.
Seattle went ahead 3-0 when Julia Gosling found a wide-open Cayla Barnes at the back door for an easy finish.
Alex Carpenter, who scored Seattle’s only goal over the previous two games, scored her ninth of the season midway through the third to regain a three-goal lead.
New York (8-0-3-11) has just four wins away from home this season, with two coming as the home team in the Takeover Tour.
Sarah Fillier scored her fifth goal of the season for New York and 17th of her career.
New York plays its fifth and final Takeover Tour game on Saturday against Montreal in Detroit.
Seattle returns home to play Ottawa on Sunday.
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